### Description of Contents

1. Replication Materials folder contains scripts and data to replicate the analysis, plots and tables in "Does the Ideology of the Newsroom Affect the Provision of Media Slant?" Because of privacy concerns we have not included the original journalist survey, although we do include the scripts and stan code. If you are interested in this part of the analysis please contact Hans Hassell (hans.hassell@gmail.com) or Matt Miles (milesma@byui.edu).
2. Paper_Scores.csv has the data on the estimated newsroom ideology scores for all newspapers in our sample. Below we describe each column.

## Paper_Scores.csv

- "paper": Title of the newspaper.
- "city": City and state (two letter abbreviation). For example: "Oxford, OH"
- "rpaper_mu": The estimated mean ideology of the newspaper using the IRT model described in the paper. This is what you are likely looking for.
- "rpaper_sd": The standard deviation of the ideological estimate of the newspaper using the IRT model described in the paper.
- "counts": The number of local journalists that provided an ideological estimate of that paper.
- "mean": An alternative measure of a papers' ideology calculated as just the mean of what respondents reported for the ideology of that paper. It likely suffers from DIF as described in the manuscript.

## Merging
Given the nature of newspaper data merging this on to other data can be difficult. Our advice is to make use of both the name of the paper and the city (there are papers with the same name in the dataset).
